Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-10
Quarterly Report of the western Union
Telegraph Company.

NEW 1ORh, lLit AANCbAAis
of the Directors of the Western Union Tel
egraph Company to-day, President Nervin
Green submitted his regular quarterly re-
port. 1t is as follows: The net revenues
for the quarter ending March 3lst instant,
based upon the nearly completed returns
for January, and partial returns for Febru-
arv, and estimating the business for March,
will be about $4,000; add surplus on
January LIST, Sc, III, $40, giving a total of
Sc. 921 $40 from which appropriating for
interest on bonds $123, 40, and sinking
funds 1000, leaves balance Of S6,71S,3 $40.
There has been large increase oyer the
corresponding quarter of the previous year
in the volume of business, and handsome
increase IN the gross receipts from the land
line service, which was counter-balanced
by loss of revenues from the cable service,
and by increased expenses, owing to
greater number of messages handled, and
extensive reconstruction. The outlay for
extensions of wires, aud for insulated wire,
with view of getting the wires off the
poles in New York and Brooklyn, has been
very large, and must continue for time to
absorb q large amount of the net earnings.
The President recommended tllat no diyi-
dend be declared 4 resolution was passed
that, with the consent of the stockholders,
the stock company should be increased by
81, 200 600, to take up the script TO that
amount issued last April.
Trial Tests of a New steel Rife Gun.
WASHINGTON, March 9th-The officers of
the ordnance corps are very much gratiiied
with the performance of the eight-inch
stell riAegun now being tested at Sandy
Hook. This gun was built at the West
Point foundry, of English and domestic
steel. Thirty test rounds have been fired,
I.
summer With.shot weighing 2S9 pounds,
and charge of American brown powder,
the initial velocity of the proiectile was
1.S75 feet, and the energy developed at the
distance of l, 600 yards was equal to 1000
I foot tons. General Bennett says these re-
suits have been carefully compared with
| the records of trials of the new navy gun,
| and Knapp, English and French guns of
the same caliber and establish the fact
| that the army eieht-ineh steel rife is fully
equal to the naval gun, and better than the
guns of corresponding caiiber made by
| foreign manufacturers.
California Patents Granted.
WAsH1NsToN, March 9th. = California
patents have been granted as follows Syl-
vester B. Davis, Eureka, horse collar; James
Brusie, Oakland, wheel attachment for BIZ
cycle and tricycle.; William Gilman, San
Francisco, printers galley; A. Huntington,
San Francisco, apparatus for atomizing sui
phur; William Jones, San Francisco, samp-
| ling apparatus and storage floor, Frank a.
Huntington, San Francisco, amalgamator
George Hensel. San Francisco, electric
bolt-releasing device; Emory J. Nichols
San Francisco, copying paper; Archibald
C McKinnon, San Francisco, pencil sharp
ener; Eugene Sherwood, San Francisco.
sash fastener; John Richardson, San Fran
cisco, two patents for centrifugal pump;
William r. Vcgt, Oakland, spirit test;
James T. Kenworthy, D. s. Eaton and A.
Thompson, Cotton. steam engine; Charles
Yogel and F. Whelan, San Francisco, grip
for cable railways.
Appointments.
WASHINGTON, March 9th.-Matthew A.
Manning of West Virginia, has been ap-
pointed Chief of division in the Pension
Office. Walter Jordan, of Buford D. T.,
has been appointed Appraiser of the right
of-way of the st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railroad Company through the
vations. The President slso appointed
Henry L. Ebninger, of NeE York, to be
United States Consul at Glen Fuegos, vice
W. A. Pierce, suspended. and Louis Geb-
hard Reed, OF New York to be United
States Consul AZ Barbados, vice Robert Y.
Haley, suspended. These appointments
were made during the session of Congress,
but failed Of confirmation.
Total of Congressional Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, March 9th.-A statement
of the footings of the appropriation bills
passed at the last session of Congress has
been completed BIZ the clerks Of the Senate
and House Committees on Appropriations.
1t is IS follows: Agriculture, 81 OBS, $50;
army, 50, 724. us diplomatic and consular,